Award-winning composer Margaret Brandman's pieces for piano in this collection explore several Contemporary Classical and Jazz writing techniques in a tuneful and accessible way. They serve to familiarise the performer with tonalities other than Major and Minor by introducing students to the unique sounds of the seven standard church modes used in Western Music for over a thousand years: Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian. Pentatonic and Whole-tone scale sounds are also explored as well as pieces composed using 'Serial' techniques. The student of classical music will be opened up to the exciting world of Jazz sounds via the Modal Scales and the various rhythms included in the book; while the Australian animal titles will capture the performer's imagination and provide insight into the stylistic content of the piece. In addition to the pieces there are many helpful suggestions that provide a means of encouraging improvisation. For the student of composition, previously dry theoretical concepts are brought to life in each of the pieces which bridge the gap between conventional writing techniques and contemporary experimental material. Many of the pieces from this collection are listed in the Australian Music Examination Syllabus as set works for students to perform at their examinations.
Multi-award-winning composer/pianist Margaret Brandman has penned this collection of gently graded pieces for early to intermediate level pianists. The pieces are composed in a wide variety of appealing styles including Cool pieces featuring Blues, Rock, Salsa. and Jazz elements; Catchy pieces exploring the chromatic scale, the topography of the piano, and the percussive pianistic style; and Calm pieces in a flowing style with scintillating modern harmonies. These unique pieces will assist developing pianists to improve their interval reading, rhythmic, and harmonic skills, whilst gaining experience in a wide variety of contemporary musical styles. The titles of the pieces, will capture the performer's imagination and provide insight into the stylistic content of the piece.
This exciting compilation of original piano solos by award-winning composer Margaret Brandman demonstrates many contemporary writing techniques including modern two-part writing, extended chords, eastern and pentatonic scales, serial techniques, rhythmic variety and a hint of blues and jazz. These pieces are of moderate technical difficulty and therefore would suit the intermediate to advanced level performer. They provide excellent study material for students of composition. Their levels are equivalent to pieces set in Grades 5 to 7 of the Australian Music Examination Syllabus.
This set of five tuneful pieces incorporate the sounds of the seven standard four-note chords (7ths and 6ths) . They also demonstrate how modal scales can be used together with these chords. Each piece also explores skills in piano technique.
Junior Trax is a gently graded set of fifteen tuneful songs along with specially devised preparatory exercises. Designed for use following the initial stages of learning using the interval approach in Margaret Brandman's Junior Primer, every arrangement develops the pianist's ability to both co-ordinate the hands and to gain hand independence. Arranged for two balanced parts using easy key signatures and rhythms, the pieces foster music speed-reading and learning. To simplify the learning process particular attention has been paid to the proportional music layout and fingering. Lyrics are included above the music. The songs in the book, amusing title illustrations featuring Dexter the Koala and the included single-line duet parts will provide hours of enjoyment for novice pianists.
Contemporary Theory Primer provides an enjoyable and practical introduction to music theory for the novice musician from age 5 and up. The accelerated learning concepts in the book help students gain a thorough grounding in 'general interval' recognition and writing plus an understanding of various time signatures and rhythms. Colour coding is employed to help students write and recognise the music signpost notes and clefs while Margaret Brandman's simplified interval system allows students to grasp the concepts easily. The book includes plenty of practical rhythmic exercises even extending to 5/4 and 7/4 time. Graphic boxes representing the duration of the sound are placed under the notes. Once the student has coloured in the boxes, the exercises can easily be clapped or played. On completion of this primer, students will be ready to progress to Contemporary Theory Workbook Book 1.
This volume is the third annotated bibliography on this subject area to be compiled by these authors. The first, published by Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers, in 1971, was entitled AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON DIVING AND SUBMARINE MEDICINE. It covered material published during the 1960's. The second volume, entitled UNDERWATER MEDICINE AND RELATED SCIENCES: A GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE, published in 1973 by Plenum Press, covered primarily material published during 1970 and 1971, with some material from 1968 and 1969. The present volume covers material published during 1972 and 1973, but here again some earlier material has been included. The purpose of these annotated bibliographies is to make available a large proportion of the published material, in abstract form, indexed in such a manner as to make it possible to compile a reasonably complete annotated bibliography on any specific subject area in the field. It is possible thus to learn where the work is being done, by whom, and how extensively. Also, it becomes obvious what areas of research are lacking or inadequate. These specific searches can also form a background of reference material on which to base further research, or from which to write monographs or state-of-the-art surveys. Papers, articles and reports listed here are in most cases readily available.
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